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Updated shadow box
Took out several peices and replaced with better ones
from hunts so far this year.
Me and slumlord are Just getting started this year
Feilds been plowed but it rained yet on em.
All our finds this spring have been from feilds that got plowed
Last fall and sat for the winter.
Should be some good chyt out their.

Im about 1/2way to another shadow box
This 1st one is gonna be as much grade 7 to 10 stuff as I can replace into it this yr
Then get the 2nd done up when the feilds get hard to hunt.

Google bottom notched arrowheads from fla
A site called projectile points will come
Up

Very interesting site to explore

I can try, I can go through my Overstreet catalog.

Edit...just seen you found them in fla

Gice me a day or so. Its a THICK book. lol

Basal notched

But again, let me think about it.

I might go with a "Culbreath"

The redish one, It looks like a reworked tip at a glance. Hard to say for sure.

Google basal notched arrowheads from fla insted
Go to projectile point link
Should give ya a link with 8-10 shapes of arrowhead catagories

Just looked at it

Kinda Ocala looking

And another I can't
remember

The tip / triangle looking point is harder to look for
Don't look like a,whole piece.

If you explore that website

You can lose hours fast....

Culbreath is The other I just seen on the site like slumlord said.

Hey man youre supposed to be like the campfire dickheads and pretend you didn't already see my answer to him and try to take all the glory like it was you all along that found it and then 3 of your campfire cheerleaders chime and give you high praise while you again bask in the glow.

Right?

hahaha

Thanks Guy's, I appreciate he help. I will look at some of those references.

GW

What?????
I have never seen things like that transpire on here
What type of people would do such a thing.
Geez.....

The 'chuck bucket'. Come back and empty the pouches and pockets in this bucket.

Brokes, blunts, tools, scrapers, pecking stones, hammer stones, preforms too.

I found that broken bannerstone in one of last yrs buckets.

Need to take a slow day and go through it and scrub it. Some tools turn out to be quite worthy after the mud is erased.

Last couple months worth. Still have another 1/2 bucket worth in the floorboard.

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Today's finds.
Neither me or slumlord found any really standout peices today.
Slumlord found a pretty cool ovoid peice though.

I should have used something other than the Coke can. This was found in our pasture 70 some years ago. A hammer?

Richard, I've seen artifacts like that used for 2 purposes.

Usually the more highly crafted and streamlined ones were used as a war club.

The heavier and bulkier ones were used to break open big bones and skulls for the marrow or brains they contained.

The brains were used for tanning hides. The marrow was a delicacy. Much like butter. Indians loved that.

Dayom nice Rene. Does the Slumster ever help you find any?

nooka please

That same form was also used to anchor nets, Both for fishing, and for rabbit drives. Have one about the size of an elongated grapefruit that came from Montana.

Yeah, this.

Yall are lucky to have that, Slumlord. Great stuff.

Us kids never found one working the plowed fields in flat Polk Co land Grandad had in east Texas. I found a few in west and central Tx and SE NM Sacramento Mts years ago. Dayom few and far between.

Sure seems to be a goldmine of artifacts from the south country, we sure dont get those kinds of finds up here where I live, I wonder if the soil down there makes it more suitable for finding these gems.

Today was a pretty good day except for the mud soup. Several finds myself and renegade.

Lots to scrub up.


Good thing is, we got in there before the meth tweakers did.

The branching patterns in that agate resembles the branching growth patterns herples simplex causes in blinding by scarring "dendritic corneal ulcers" if not treated with toxic antivirals quickly enough, Barry.

I get depressed every time i look at this thread. Dayom id like to find some nice points like yall have tons of.

I found most of mine as a kid, digging through pea gravel loads from creekbeds in east Tx or in the boonies of W Texas around Big Springs.

I found a few in mts of NM archery hunting but i got too tall to see the small ones. My wife has found several around Independance Creek that flows into the pecos river. The Indians camped in the Independance Creek valley around a big set called Caroline Springs which years ago produced 9 million gallons a day.

A patient owned the ranch for years before selling it to the Texas Nature Conservancy.

Huge areas of flat rock the springs flowed of at places have many round holes worn down in the rock from eons of grain grinding.